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Gobgook, the problem lies in the intent of your site, I guess. The entainment is the ads, when you think about it. Link sites (and TGPs, MGPs, and thumbposts) all have a pretty narrow view of what is a free site. Link sites want typically 2 galleries, 3 ads total per page, index - inside - gallery - gallery. Once you stray from that pretty narrow construct, you are no longer in the game in a normal sense.
As for Alexa rankings, well, you can improve your own alexa rankings a bunch merely by installing their toolbar in your own browser. Because their statistics are based on a small sample "expanded" you can make their numbers look all sorts of weird if you run their toolbar. A number of our "eastern block" friends have discussed and do just that, all of them running alexa toolbars and each visiting each other's sites daily to keep the traffic up. Add to that galleries submitted on the same domain, or getting other domains to be "related" and combined for stats that are not part of the game... manipulation of the system for fun and profit.
I wish you luck with your project, now you have to figure out a way to get traffic from link sites without dilluting you original goals.
Alex
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